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How China could turn the moon into the next South China Sea

China is no longer focused only on low-Earth orbit. Beijing now treats the Moon as strategic terrain, pushing toward a ...
Mike Griffin says Artemis programme ‘cannot work’ because of complex design and unproven tech, while Chinese are ‘doing the ...
While China accelerates its preparations for a lunar landing, the United States is encountering unforeseen obstacles with its ...
More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on the lunar surface. Among legislators and senior figures in the US space ...
As SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the South Texas sky this week, a crowd of employees outside mission control began to chant, “U-S-A, U-S-A!” It was the second successful test flight after a ...
Humans last walked on the moon during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. This moment is often regarded as the pinnacle of the U.S. space program. Back then, the Apollo–Soviet space race was a ...
'Wake up and ask yourself, 'Is what I'm doing helping us get back to the moon?' … If it's not, stop doing it.' NASA's acting administrator is pushing back against recent claims that the agency is ...
(TNS) — Early in his first term, President Donald Trump held a modest ceremony directing NASA to return humans to the moon for the first time in 50 years. It was a goalpost set without a road map.
Petty infighting between SpaceX and NASA is hampering America’s space efforts—and giving China’s growing space program a shot at outpacing them both. NASA recently announced that both SpaceX and Blue ...
Those who don’t have a passion for America’s human spaceflight program — and all should, as it is the key to our future national and economic security — may not be aware of the feud between SpaceX CEO ...